#their daughter Nene is there too I guess

[str0yberries]

"Yeah my boyfriend(’)s pretty cool… but he’s not as cool as me, cause im a Brooklyn Baby."

The Aoi art we’ve been given just proves that Aida and Iro love seeing me gleam with joy and giggle over their official art!

I hope they get to rest a bit, the recent chapter was so good, I can imagine they’re exhausted!

[musicalmoritz]

if TBHK couples have kids, what will their parenting look like?

Awww, this is such a cute question!! I’m gonna do my main ones to keep this short but if you want to hear my takes on any others feel free to lmk!!

Aoinene

• Gotta do the gay moms first

• Unsure of whether they’d have a son or a daughter…either way these too are gonna adore their kid

• Aoi would be the strict mom, her own mother seems to be pretty controlling and she gives me “turning into your parent” vibes. She’d try to acknowledge when that behavior goes too far tho and eventually try to loosen up a little. She’s not the first they go to when they’re in trouble but she gives the best advice; and she doesn’t really get mad or yell, more-so she gets stern

• Nene would be the exact opposite. She’s not a regular mom, she’s a cool mom/ref. Definitely the type to take her kid on spontaneous shopping trips and not tell Aoi until they’ve already splurged. It’s okay tho because Aoi can’t stay mad at her wife. She buys her kid extra treats every time she stops by the store, and takes them for ice cream every Friday

• As they’ve both had their own mental health struggles, they would check in a lot with their child to make sure they’re doing okay

• Their family might struggle with communication because, well, it’s Aoinene, but they’re certainly going to make an effort. They’d be really into family holiday traditions, I’m talking movie binges, festivals, decorating, big meals, etc.

Terukane

• Teru practically already has two kids so whoever he’s dating is going to get the co-parenting experience (at least with Tiara, Kou becomes more of an awkward brother-in-law)

• These two would so be girl dads you cannot change my mind. If it’s not Tiara then it’s another little girl they adopted

• Teru would be a total helicopter parent, not necessarily strict like Aoi but very overprotective. And he’d do that typical parent manipulation tactic of “oh I guess I’m just the worst dad ever” during arguments. But don’t let those traits fool you, he would be the most loving dad ever. His kids are his entire life, he probably carries pictures around of them in his wallet

• Akane would also be a good dad, just less overbearing. He’d be the type to take his kid to the baseball field or yell at them over math homework at the kitchen table. It would be that type of parent/child dynamic where they immediately look at each other whenever another family member says smth out of pocket. He’s really good at taking care of ppl so he’s be very doting at times like Teru

• Since neither of their parents seem to be very active in their lives they’d try to devote as much time and attention to their daughter as possible

• One of those family dynamics where they constantly make fun of each other but it’s obvious they love each other more than anything

Mitsukou

• In an au where they could grow up together…

• They have a son or a son and a daughter

• Kou would be one of those overly loving fun dads. The type of guy you think of when you hear “dad energy.” He tries to make conversation with all his kids’ friends and it’s awkward. And he’d start a bunch of projects for his kids like building a pool or planning family vacations. If one of his kids has a rough day he sits them down for an emotional talk. Overachiever Dad, if you will

• Mitsuba would be the type of dad to lovingly bully his kids 24/7. Yes he critiques their outfit choices every day. Yes he gives his input on school drama. He’d be very annoying but at the end of the day still care a lot, I like to think he’d have a subtle overprotective streak. Kou does like 80% of the parenting for him but he’s there for emotional support

• They care a lot abt making sure their kid has hobbies and friends so they’re both on the PTA

• They’re one of those really annoying families that wear matching pajamas at Christmas. Yes you are going to see their aesthetic family pictures every time you open Instagram. The kids think they’re too cool for it but they’re not

I hope you enjoyed these, thank you for the ask!

[blossomofhope]

alright boys time to talk about my prosekai fantasy au.

this is all just assorted wordvomit but there's something of a plotline to this so hear me out. (thanks to @egret-orchids for helping me in places!)

i have no idea what i'm doing and i have exams in two weeks. this is how i choose to spend my time.

feel free to send in asks about this!

the plot's as follows:

the yoru empire (imperial soldiers) and the kingdom of azayakana (knights of white) are at war, allegedly over territory.

mafuyu's an imperial soldier and a very good one. kanade's the imperial princess, away to sort something out in senritsu, an island off the main coast.

though that's all a cover story. mafuyu's the real princess. kanade's taken her place. it's not like the people of senritsu have ever met mafuyu before, right?

toya serves as kanade's personal guard. lizards follow him everywhere, something rui's friend torpe really doesn't like. he's a man of many talents, though he doesn't talk much.

ichika's a senritsun commander, alongside honami, who's a general, and saki, who's a new recruit but very enthusiastic.

rui's the court sorcerer who only came with kanade in case she needed some sort of spellwork done. she didn't. he's a bit of a mystery on purpose - he'd rather keep people guessing than admit the truth, no matter what.

torpe is a friend of rui's. definitely foreign but nice enough. he's a great pianist and toya looks up to him a lot. and if the lizards weren't always around that'd be completely fine.

tsukasa tenma was a knight, the best of his generation, perhaps of all time. he and the other 'knights of white', as they were known, were famous for their strength, their wits and their bravery. there's something missing now, with such a star dead.

mizuki akiyama's a knight. they're a commander, and akito can suck it, he's never going to get that promotion. he's too reckless, you know? but with tsukasa dead maybe they should reconsider things. ena's in yoru. ena, who understands them more than most people because she was outcast too.

akito shinonome is a knight. a general, actually, but that doesn't mean that much when mizuki stole all the glory. they're a real pain. so was tsukasa, but akito's not the type to speak ill of the dead.

shiho was a knight. she's not, now, seeing as they technically deserted. tsukasa said he was going to. he wanted to find his sister and tell her all about his victories. they just wanted out of the army and out of the kingdom, and now she's headed for senritsu, or maybe yoru, with no idea where to restart.

minori, haruka and shizuku are all nobility. airi works for minori.

an's an informant for kaito, who heads the empire's spy network. so is 'vivid' (miku).

kohane lives with an in senritsu.

nene's a witch and a refugee fleeing azayakana. emu's a nobleman's youngest daughter pursuing the life of an adventurer. meiko runs the inn they're staying at!

ena's an old friend of mizuki's, an artist and witch. she's a bit of a recluse and spends most of her time painting. luka's the one who keeps an eye on her.

len's the newest knight of white. rin lives in azayakana and keeps their family's business running.

'her royal highness mafuyu asahina of the yoru empire'

corporal 'yuki yoisaki'

toya aoyagi, rui kamishiro, commander ichika hoshino and general honami mochizuki

saki tenma and 'torpe'

tsukasa tenma (deceased), mizuki akiyama and akito shinonome, the famed knights of white.

shiho hinomori (deserted) and kagamine len

minori hanasato, haruka kiritani, shizuku hinomori and airi momoi

an shiraishi and kohane azusawa

(kohane's sort of a mix of these two. she's got the horns from the first and the outfit from the second)

emu otori, nene kusanagi and meiko

kaito, 'vivid' and kagamine rin

ena shinonome and megurine luka

[pjsk-headcanons]

nenekasa au: why do our pets appear in more family portraits than your youngest daughter?

now now i don’t think i sent in part eight yet. mod i hope you liked my antoya au and my knmf triplets au

anyways moving on.

nenekasa are bad at planning. isn’t it obvious? the first show? they got married on a sliver of a whim, and proceeded to have twins on that same damn sliver? pretty obvious that they would probably not have a third child without extreme planning.

anyways they had a third baby. nene was shocked!!! well she was excited. tsukasa was too. the twins???

a1 was disgusted. a2 dry heaved. but they love their baby sister, k!!! i hope.

i should probably start using their names. so here’s a guide to all 3 tenma girls.

a1 is ayame tenma. she’s a star in a tetralogy i made on ao3 (iykyk….)!!!! she’s the oldest tenma girl (grandchild wise). she’s got stephen the tarantula. s

a2 is ayana tenma. she’s in the sims save. 🔥🔥 not much about her i made her on a whim

k is keiko tenma. she too is on the sims save. i almost cried because of how cute she is /srs. sims and their fucking baby shoes i’m gonna get you ea games 🙁

so yeah 💞

also i’m not opposed to being anon guessed!! :3

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[nogenderbee]

No cause, have you seen that parody of inside out 2 where riley got a lobotomy?

Anyways, another questions since im feeling a bit creative😈 whose your..

Fave character??

Comfort character??

Fave character by design??

Fave character by plot??

Guilty fave??

Selfship fave?(If u have one)(It basically means a character you ship with your oc, [oc x cc])

And lastly... All time favorite!!

(this question goes for all fandoms ur in, have fun😈)

(my guilty fave would be mafumom... IK SHES THE VILLAIN BUT OMFG SHES SO NICELY WRITTEN!! like we know she loves her daughter but she doesn't exactly show it correctly?? I would LOVE to hear her backstory cause i feel like she and mafuyu relate alot??[generational trauma] i still dont condone her actions but shes so nicely written like..🫠)

-Daily! Anon

I didn't ToT Tbh I didn't even watch the Inside Out 2 in the first place... I'm planning on it but all I can base on for now are just tt...

As for the questions... Omg that's a lot... But!

I think my fav character won't surprise anyone... An from PJSK and Xinyan from Genshin!! I love them both sm!!!!

As for comfort characters... I feel.lile that's also both of my faves but also Rui! And sometimes Zhongli too... depending on what type of comfort we're speaking of here!

As for design... I feel like Lingyang from WuWa stops my heart recently <3 Maybe it's because 2nd game I play most... but oh well~ HE'S JUST SO CUTEEE

By plooooot... I'm sad to say I have no idea 😔 I never read THAT much plot so it's usually hard for me to speak here... But I guess I can go for Ichika? I don't really know why, I just gotten into her plot a bit more recently and I'm honestly liking it so far!!

As for selfships... I'll just do OCs because I'm not really big fan of putting yourself with chars like that but it's just for me!!! But I got OCs AND! Shin is assigned to Ena and... Kako got assigned to Toya, I'm kinda shipping Eimi with Haruka but am also opened for other ships and I'm still questioning Rika since she was made for (friends oc)Nene's brother... So maybe Nene but still not sure??

AND FINALLY GUILTYFAVE

I have to agree with you here! Oh who'd expect a tiktok would change my mind about mafumom...

Basically I saw how she was panicking over Mafuyu being out of the house and her not knowing what to do and genuinely (I believe) crying and that made me just go like "omg someone cooked her..."

Is she bad? Yes. Do I feel like she has good reason to be like that? I'M HOPING SO BECAUSE SHE HAS POTENTIAL!!!

So I'm slowly starting to JUST A LITTLE like her 🤭 well more like how she's written but... I believe that's always something!

Also I hope you don't mind this bath of rambles I did here because... well I had fun! But I'm just aware it turned out to be A LOT

[noodleodoodleo]

Popping in my heart

Chapter 1 Sho-chan... also, it's funny seeing the live 2dmodels in suits and stuff but the dialogue says he just woke up. So now it seems like Shosuke sleeps in a full suit.

Emu gets invited to the discussion awwwww

the otoris are happy and optimistic again. THIS is why I don't agree with the "the Otoris are a bad family" idea. same with Kanade's father. He suffered immensely and despite how he may have felt, he still tried his best for his daughter, even if it didn't work out that well.

Emu is just a neverending well of ideas... yep Emu seems very undiagnosed adhd

Keisuke is so sweet. He is open to her ideas and has a proper discussion with her but also understands that she is 16 and wouldn't necessarily always think of the actual resources needed. She provides ideas and inspiration and the older brothers adapt/take them into account to improve the theme park. Keisuke did say that he needed Emu for a different perspective on things, which she is providing. Also, he's so gentle with Emu.

Emu it's ok not to know everything about the company your family runs, you are 16 years old.

I wonder where is their father? He is one of the owners but does he not do anything for the park or is he just the guy with the money or smth else? How do companies work? I'm not rich enough to know this stuff... T-T

Emu it's fine not to know, I reiterate you are 16 years old and have no experience yet, emphasis on yet. This knowledge and intuition comes with time actually working in the management of the park. They JUST allowed you to know about these things. It's fine.

Shosuke just teach her. You can never know too much and having someone with many skills and specialities is really helpful even if they don't directly work in that field. Stop being an idiot.

NO EMU SHUT UP!! THAT IS NOT WHAT HE MEANT... i hope. But no don't think like that please...

YES THAT'S IT!! While it is ok to rely on others, yes learn about business and all that stuff.

Immediately forgot about her troubles.

Chapter 2 wait... wondashow are idiots, how many of them know english?

Mr Riley is a child at heart.

Rui... what do you want to do in the us? should I be concerned...? I'll be concerned either way but still... rui... answers?

Oh no... I guess you can call turbulence... exciting... I feel you Nene I think robo-nene would count as a weapon... Tsukasa randomly running off to strike poses is gonna stick in my mind forever I feel you Nene (x2)

imagine you're at the airport and this Japanese dude is just standing in the sunlight posing and monologuing

keep Tsukasa on a leash still thinking of Saki even when being overdramatic Miku jumpscare Still never explained why they need to hide the existence of the virtual singers. The virtual singers seem pretty nonchalant about this so... They're in disneyland A performer can know about the business

Chapter 3 This Kaito is such a malewife Oh wow this background is just straight up phoenix stage, not even recoloured. ah of course rui immediately knows how the stunts and effects work ... I started reading wondashow stories so I could read the newest one from jp server and well...

That feels familar...

Emu you don't need to pay that much attention to the numbers...

Yes Tsukasa listen to Kaito you have time, take it one step at a time Not just wondashow all the characters in prsk need to chill out. IT'S FINE, YOU GUYS ARE IN HIGH SCHOOL , YOU DON'T NEED TO BE AT A PROFESSIONAL LEVEL YET.

Tsukasa... of course he knows your struggles, he was literally made from your feelings and your feeling alone mind you.

The brightest stars burn out the fastest...

The virtual singers sensed a crying child. Parent mode activated. Superhuman emu? that's an idea for an au or wild animal emu that works too

Chapter 4 True a young american child would most likely not know who hatsune miku is

Tsukasa you imbecile I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOOD WITH CHILDREN?! is this why he learned how to make children happy so that he can do his job in the white day story I feel you Nene (x3)

Emu materialized flames and sparkles this is why she's the best

You think, Tsukasa? Rui sounds like a tts

Ah so Tsukasa doesn't know english, Nene knows a little bit of and Rui is really good at it.

Chapter 5 how did they do this? money lots and lots money, you know the stuff your park doesn't have.

I wish robo-nene were here so they could tell us exactly how loudly tsukasa screamed

Chapter 6 try things out get experience with these sort of things and get help from others, yes that is how you do things knowing a few things outside of your specialty area is still good. It can widen your horizon and provide you with more ideas and different perspectives, so mixing knowledge is never a bad thing.

NO HER SMILE IS UPSIDE DOWN, TURN IT BACK AROUND!!!

Bad timing dude...

Chapter 7 why are they talking japanese in the flashback... Oh my god... emu's grandfather is so Emu (also has a weirdly Tsukasa-like vibe)

Chapter 8 YES RILEY TELL IT TO HER! EMU YOU'RE 16! YOU! HAVE! TIME!

I still don't think it's a bad idea for Emu to learn how a business works in her off time. Like yes focus on what you can do right now but don't just stay in that nieche forever, expand your horizons little by little.

Emu crams the night before an exam... I feel like no one in this game actually knows how to learn things... then again in real life and in japan especially school is just memorization and not actual learning so... :/ I hate school...

Raunosuke was a jack of all trades. This is what I mean when I say you can never learn too much. No your grandfather is like Tsukasa because he is way too loud and has zero situational awareness, well nvm Emu's grandfather was aware of the situation he just didn't give a shit and honestly, that's such a mood.

btw Rui calls Emu, Emu-kun and I vaguely remember him calling Saki Saki-kun but I'm not 100% sure. So I need to check my hypothesis of Ruil calling everyone (minus Nene and Mizuki) "kun". He doesn't use any honorifics for Nene or Mizuki. Nene cause they are close friends, Mizuki also close friends but hear me out my headcanon is that Rui stopped using honorifics for Mizuki when they told him about well themselves and in that moment rui had the choice of changing honorifics or dropping them entirely (or well, rejecting mizuki's identity but yeah no) so he thought about it and decided they were close enough that he can just not use any honorifics for them. BUT if my hypothesis of rui using "kun" for everyone regardless of gender is true then that adds another layer to the headcanon of rui fully respecting Mizuki's identity and changing his habits for their sake.

Anyway cute story, I am starting to fall in love with these clowns.

[cinnamon-stheater]

"Did you like the concert?"

Emu nodded excitedly. "Yeah! It was so sparkle-sparkle-glitter-shimmer-WHOOSH~!"

"I liked it too," Nene smiled. "It was nice of Mizuki to give those tickets to us. I wish Rui could have come, but I guess he's not very interested in the idol business."

"It was really fun with you, Nene!" Emu's eyes shined with delight. "I'm so happy you could come!"

"Me too," Nene agreed. "It was really fun."

Joy welled up inside of Emu, and she beamed. It was a familiar feeling, one that felt right and comfortable. She relished in happiness, loved it, cherished it. But the girl up on stage, Mafuyu... she wasn't smiling all throughout her performance, or when she and the others stood on stage to say goodbye. The corners of her lips were lifted and her eyes were squinted, but it wasn't the same. It wasn't a real smile.

"My home is this way," Nene said suddenly, breaking through Emu's train of thought. "I'll see you later!"

"Bye bye, Nene-chan!" Emu waved vigorously before skipping off to her house. It wasn't far from here, but the night was chilly and she'd worn a dress and sweater instead of her usual pink jacket to the concert.

And Mafuyu... she wanted to see her smile.

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"I'm home, Mom!"

"Welcome back, Mafuyu!" Mafuyu's mother appeared. "Let me take your bag for you. How did your performance go?"

"It went great," Mafuyu replied politely.

"That's good. I'm sorry I couldn't be there to watch it."

"Don't worry about it," Mafuyu shook her head in sympathy. "I know you were busy."

"Hehe, what an understanding daughter I have." Mafuyu's mother paused. "I cooked your favorite dish. Why don't you go change out of your outfit and have something to eat? You must be hungry."

"Of course. Thank you, Mom!" In a practiced, instinctive manner, Mafuyu lifted the two corners of her mouth and smiled.

୭ ˚.⁺⊹ I Want You to Smile .ᐟ.ᐟ ⋆˙⟡

MafuEmu idol AU fanfic or something Enjoy the show !!

"♪--"

"Waa! Mafuyu-chan is so cute!"

"Go Mafuyu-chan!"

"I love you Mafuyu-chan!"

"Thank you, everyone!" Mafuyu stood on the brightly-lit stage, waving to the crowd before her. The floor was purple beneath her feet, and digital sparkles were scattered over it. Screaming white lights beamed down from the top of the stage, in front of her, behind her. It was a miracle she wasn't blinded.

"I'm very glad I could perform for you today!" Mafuyu said sweetly. "It was an honor being here. I love you all!"

"Kyaa~! Mafuyu-chan said she loves me!"

"We love you too, Mafuyu-chan!"

"Mafuyu-chan, bye bye~!"

Mafuyu slowly backed away offstage, waving to her fans as she left. As she disappeared backstage, she breathed out a sigh of relief. Finally, she was out of the spotlight.

Three girls around her age threw themselves at her, wrapping their arms around her in giddy joy and squealing excited praises.

"Mafuyu, you did so good!"

"That was amazing! Fantastic job!"

"Your singing has improved so much!"

"Hehe, thank you," Mafuyu smiled. "You all performed well too."

"Oh, I just got praised by Mafuyu!" Mizuki said dramatically. She slumped against Mafuyu's shoulder, her hand on her forehead in the stereotypical "fainting" position.

"Do you need water?!" Kohane gasped.

"She's just playing with you," Airi said with a laugh.

Mizuki grinned, straightening themselves. "It's time for the outro~! Come on!" She beckoned Mafuyu forwards as she made her way to the right stage entrance.

Just like how they always ended their performances, Mafuyu and Mizuki entered the stage on the right side and Airi and Kohane on the other. The fans cheered as they stepped onstage, their glowsticks bright pink and purple rainbows in the air. Confetti exploded on the virtual screen behind them, and their logo appeared, swimming in shiny bright sparkles and showers of pink and purple. Mafuyu smiled and waved, smile and waved, smiled with her mouth and waved with her hand, like a robot with a set of code to follow. Beside her, her fellow idols cheered with the fans, beaming with them, resonating with them...

Down in the crowd, a girl with bright pink eyes gazed up at the stage.

"Mafuyu-chan..? Why isn't she smiling?"

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[ramblingsekai]

Oh god, I bought Rogue Legacy 2 and Slay the Spire and I’ve been so distracted playing them that the Stray Bad Dogs event snuck up on me. I’ve barely been checking tumblr and twitter and just happened to notice bc the L/n event ended last night. Anyways, I decided to do some scrolling thru tumblr and decided to make some random HCs that I couldn’t figure out how to make into longer posts. Just gonna be something fun and kinda scrambled thoughts I’m dumping into one post. I think I did something similar one time but it ended up being only 25ji HCs, but this time I’ll try to do more than them. Let’s gooo.

MMJ HC

Assuming that MMJ is using something like YT or Twitch to stream their stuff, I like to think that MMJ’s friends end up getting mod status or something similar. Eventually MMJ get full-time mods that aren’t their friends, but I think it’d be cute if the other characters pop in to watch the streams when they can and end up helping out if they’re there.

Kohane and An would type messages to cheer on MMJ as well as reminding ppl to be respectful.

Shiho, Ena, and An also end up being the ones to block spammers and delete more hateful messages. Bc there’s always going to be trolls, but hopefully other fans also help out too.

I’d like if Nene helps out with modding in general too, but I’m not sure how close Nene is with MMJ. I think she might be friends with Minori after Scramble Fest, but it’s hard to say.

If it’s Twitch, maybe Mizuki ends up helping out by making highlight vids every once in awhile (I think Mizuki is a fan anyways so not out of bounds).

All their friends usually end up reblogging/retweeting posts about special events for MMJ.

Like obviously the other characters aren’t full time and are just helping out when they can, but I always wonder how well MMJ is handling the more streaming live/online videos aspect of their careers at this point. I know that the latest Haruka event in JP talked about a new producer for the group, a not Tik Tok app, and MMJ getting flamed bc of a new song sounding similar to another one as well as showing Haruka dealing with her previous feelings about her temporary retirement. This is all based on what I saw on Twitter and some machine translations, but I’d rather not form assumptions based on machine translations and unfortunately there aren’t any fan translations for the event online so I guess I’ll just wait for now.  

VBS

So something I’ve never been able to clearly remember, did Akito ever properly apologize to Kohane about the whole stage lights thing in the main story? I feel like Kohane and An just sorta forgave him after learning the truth, but Akito himself never actually said ‘I’m sorry’. So I kinda want Akito to at some point to properly say that he is sorry to Kohane. Bc even if he wasn’t the one to close the lights, he still intended to try to scare off Kohane bc he didn’t think she was serious about performing music. Now I get it, Akito is super serious about music and thinks that if you’re saying you want to surpass Rad Weekend, you need to be serious. However, Kohane was still a rookie at the time. Just bc she was still new, it didn’t mean she wasn’t serious about it. Akito was new at some point too and had to learn about Vivid Street and music too before realizing his dream more. So I guess it just sorta rubs me the wrong way that Akito tried so hard to scare off Kohane, bc Akito himself was a rookie too at the start and he didn’t give Kohane a chance to pursue the dream. I also wonder if Akito has high-ish standards for An since she’s Ken’s daughter and is serious (in his POV) about surpassing RW, so in a way he felt like An wasn’t living up to his standards. I should probably have reread the main story before typing this, but Akito’s actions and attitude in the main story always seemed pretty hypocritical and petty to me, so I kinda just want him to sit down with Kohane and give a proper apology.

I know it seems like I dislike Akito from this, but I honestly like the guy. Out of all the guys in Proseka, he’s actually my favorite alongside Toya. A thing to keep in mind, Akito is a teenager, and teenagers do dumb and petty shit often bc they’re teenagers. I don’t excuse his actions, but I get it. And he did seem to learn from the whole thing and ended up becoming good friends with An and Kohane still. Plus, I think he’s actually pretty perceptive towards others feelings ( i.e An’s events, Ena and their dad, Toya, etc.). 

So my HC with Akito is that maybe he was so harsh with Kohane bc he saw a partial reflection. Kohane has a lot of parallels alongside Toya (not seeing RW but still trying to surpass it, quieter/calmer personalities, etc), but I think Kohane also has some parallels with Akito. Both don’t come from a musical background, so they had to start from the ground up, their respective partners are more experienced in music than they are, etc. But maybe when first seeing Kohane, he’s reminded of his younger self and soccer. Akito was really crushed about soccer during that summer festival event and ended up being lost until he found a new passion in street music. But the road was probably hard since he had to go it alone, plus this was probably going on at the same time as his home situation with Ena and their dad having their first fight. It got easier over time, especially after meeting Toya. So I wonder if when he first saw Kohane, he saw a version of his younger self and was trying to somehow spare her from the displaced feeling he felt after being crushed in soccer. Again, not to excuse his actions bc it’s still kinda shitty, but showing another POV of what he did.

Obviously, Akito and Kohane are good friends now, but I also hope that Akito and Kohane’s friendship as well as An and Toya’s friendship grow more in the future. I saw around Twitter ppl complaining about how VBS feels more like 2 groups who happen to sing songs together rather than one cohesive unit like w/ the other groups, and I get it. But I also disagree, since I think VBS is learning from each other and the whole 2 pairs thing is sort of a rivalry thing. The pairs push each other to be better as well as helping each other out. Akito helps An out with her feelings/actions towards Kohane as her partner, An reminds Akito that he’s not alone and has a group of friends he can rely on, Kohane is an unpolished diamond that is slowly revealing her shine which is pushing the others to keep moving forward/improving, Kohane is also a sort of opposite of Toya in that she’s a more natural type of musical genius who understands the feeling behind music (we see this with her lessons from Taiga and how open with her emotions she is) while Toya is the more classically trained genius who has put hundreds of hours into music. So Kohane and the others help Toya out with his feelings and music while Toya/An/Akito also helps teach Kohane the ropes. Their combined rigorous training and Kohane’s hard work outside of their practice ends up causing Kohane to level up faster (VBS Miku points that out too at some point in an event later lol).

So yeah that’s all I’m going to put for now. I said I’d do multiple groups, but I ended up doing like 2 groups and they were pretty large rambles too lol. Still, I haven’t done a long ramble in awhile so this was kinda fun for me. I noticed I’ve been slowing down with the longer posts bc I’ve kinda caught up on all the fan translation stuff so now I have to reread stuff or just wait for it to come out on global.

I realize I sorta ended up posting more incorrect quotes stuff than rambles/theories stuff lately. I wonder if I should cut back on that or not? (let me know if that type of stuff is annoying).

But still, let me know your thoughts on what I said. Agree, disagree? Did I miss something? Feel free to let me know. Thanks for reading!

[larathia]

TBHK Analysis: Chapter 88

So, it is time once again for me to attempt to analyze the latest TBHK chapter, and hooboy there is just so much to unpack here. We're finally getting backstory on Number Six, which I'm sure will be continued in next month's chapter since we are nowhere near done.

But meantime. Let's see what we can say about what we have, ne?

Firstly, what we have here is some seriously creepy entanglements between the Akane family and the Minamoto clan, and what I took away from it is we should be thinking really hard about what Teru's 'plans' for Aoi might include. Because what we've got is that the Akane family traditionally provided the kannagi sacrifices, and that the Minamoto clan enforced this.

That's new. We knew the Minamotos were exorcists, but not their history in the Town. Now we know that the whole screwed up history of the place, including the regular human sacrifices - the clan's in this up to their necks. And it's entirely possible, even probable, that Teru knows more than a little of the history involved. It would certainly explain his attitude toward Kou 'playing the hero'; if Teru knows any of this, then he knows 'heros' are not what the Minamoto clan are.

Likewise, we know a few more things about the Akane family. We know, with reasonable certainty, that all those wraiths in the pit that Nene met - they were probably all Akanes. We know that the last Akane sacrifice took place long-enough ago that Aoi knew nothing about it, too, or that she was her generation's kannagi. (Which probably means that the last one, that poor guy they dressed in drag and threw in the pit, was at least a sibling of Aoi's great grandmother or something; she'd probably have heard about it if the sacrifices had continued into her grandmother's day.) We know that the Akane family as a whole regarded this as their duty, enough so that they eventually just handed Sumire over as a young child so as to hopefully avoid incurring her resentment later.

It's useful to know that enough people in the village hated this practice of sacrifice that Six had contingency instructions for if anyone tried to help the unfortunate chosen to escape their fate, but not enough people were against it to keep the Akane family from running out of daughters.

We'll undoubtedly learn more about how Six came to have Sumire as his yorishiro, and how he came to be Wonder Number Six, next month. (Personally, I love looking forward to that.) But in the meantime...

1) The boundary is supposed to collapse, it isn't collapsing, and Teru's party aren't responsible. This kinda leaves Hanako as the prime suspect - my guess being that he doesn't want the boundary to collapse while Nene is still in it. Alternatively, what's keeping the boundary from collapsing fully is the presence of living humans still in it...in which case it's Nene's fault. Aoi currently ranks as 'dead', and Six put the three boys on the brink of death.

2) Everyone currently freaking out about the state of the Minamoto party should probably relax. Hanako pointed out quite early on in the series that no one can die in a boundary. There's therefore still plenty of time for the Minamotos and Akane to be healed; right now they're honestly just incapacitated. Whether they're healed, or cast back into the mortal world to die, remains to be seen.

3) Sumire was not sacrificed. Six wants to get Aoi to the Far Shore, because then the sacrifice will stick. Sumire was not in the Far Shore...which means that in Sumire's case, the sacrifice did not stick...unless someone else was thrown in. Sumire not being sacrificed means Six, at some point, disobeyed.

My thoughts on the future (for what they're worth)

1) The story isn't likely to end here, but we're definitely seeing a huge shakeup. If Aoi is sacrificed, Nene lives. If she's the reason the boundary hasn't collapsed (as a living person), then Six is going to hunt her down. (Alternatively it's Hanako, but as they're together, Six is still going to hunt them down.)

2) It's entirely possible that we're seeing preparations to shift the entire story's setting into the spirit world; Nene will go with Hanako regardless of whether she lives or dies (or at least, she'll try to), but the others kinda would've needed a reason and now they may well have one.

[rosesnink]

Grand WIP Wednesday

Hello thurr! Since tomorrow I’ll be MIA to Mérida, I may as well leave you WIPs I’ve been working nonstop. As a treat. ASo you don’t forget about me ;) 

The Cursed Heiress: CH12, 13, 14 & The Damned Daughter 

Chapter 12: Against The Clock 

Nya scoffed “I can’t believe that wretched human just annulled the marriage! He was perfect for you both! But I guess humans are too weak to compromise. I had the immortality ritual ready for him! Pah, human men are utterly worthless at the end of the day. Why did we agree on—,”

“Stop it, sister! This wasn’t Vincent’s doing. It was his small-minded father, Rupert Foredale. Vincent would never let me go if it depended on him, but humans were too foolish to give such a weak sex all the powers in the world.”

“And you couldn’t stop him?” Nene asked.

“No. It was too risky.”

“And is he aware of your condition?”

“My pregnancy or my powers?”

“Both.”

“He is aware that I am an immortal witch… but he doesn’t know that I am with child. And it should be like this. He didn’t have the guts to fight for me. He is not deserving of her.”

“How are you so sure it’s a girl? The men demand a boy.”

“There are many things that not even the most powerful magic can do. You should know that, Nya. You’re one century older than me.”

Chapter 13 In The Name of Love 

“I hear Miss Parsons has been filling her mind with politics! How dreadfully scandalous for a lady!”

Joanna adopted Duke Richards’s exaggerated high tenor voice “Indeed, my lady! Women ought to be stupid, meek and obedient to do my bidding! Oh, I can hardly stand the image! Excuse me, ladies, but such scandal requires me to go back to Wankerland, where I am King of Pathetic! Excuse moi!” And levelled her thigh up, as if hinting to show off his friend and marched through the door and pretended to slam, “Oh, my! I am such a big wanker that I cannot fit in the door! Guess I’ll get drunk by fantasies that will never become true, such as a lady enduring my endless talking about me until I am too drunk to even think!” She sat on the floor and jumped, “Oh, I forgot! I don’t think because I have no braincells!”

Miss Parsons was red with laughter, on the floor, barely making a noise as she laughs, clutching her stomach. Joanna crawled at her, crying of laughter, both on the floor, the painting forgotten.

“I did not know you were such a comedian, Joanna!” She said between laughter.

Chapter 14 Welcome Home 

Mr. Sinclaire was in awe with the big manor that didn’t seem to have an end. After what he’s seen, he could get lost in that manor for weeks! Joanna opened the door and showed the biggest bedroom his eyes have ever witnessed. The room was as big as his bedchambers in Bath, London and Ledford Park together. There was a fountain in a wall, a big chandelier with loads of books, the roof was arched and with painting of the Greek Gods, the walls were white, navy blue and golden, the bed was held up high, stairs in it, the floor was made of wood on one half and on the other, white marble like the Acropolis, a wall full of flowers: Forget Me Not, roses, lilies… The room had a magical essence, words could not describe it.

“Well?” Joanna asked “Do you like it?”

“You have a beautiful room, Your Highness.”

“I like it better when you call me My Lady…” She smirked.

He looked at her and he flushed pink.

She smiled at him, her face glowing with so much magic inside of her, she seemed to thrive. Her dress was beautiful: it was white, with a big V on her chest and a soft, transparent silk that revealed her curves and her hair was let down, ginger curls kissing her sides. Mr. Sinclaire’s pulse quickened, his hands itching to touch her skin, but he contained himself. He cleared his throat and saw a desk with many liquors. He served himself one and drank the witchy liquor, a soft, burning caress going down his throat.

“You know how to decorate a room… my lady.”

The Damned Daughter, Part 3: Wide Awake 

Odessa loved her daughter more than anything. She’d kill for her. Destroy for her. Ruin anything for her wellbeing. As she cooed happily, she mulled over what would happen to her: she was high in Dracarian society, which meant really vicious snakes would come to her. The thought of that worried her. Many assassinations attempts were made towards her, but she wouldn’t let them. She’d gladly give herself than let them touch her little girl. At least, in here they wouldn’t know who was she, and how much the world would change because of it.

At least not yet.

Plan B, Chapter 3: Untitled 

She smiled at him, and his heart skipped a beat. She looked divine tonight, he thought. He wanted to thank the moron who dumped her for bringing her to him tonight. He drank the entire cup and looked at Samantha. She cleared her throat as she looked at her phone, full of notifications “Oh, goodness! It’s late! I should really—,”

He did not notice what he did until he looked at it himself. Midway getting up, he had grabbed her arm gently “Don’t,” he said, without thinking, “please, stay.”

Her eyes went wide and inhaled sharply “Do you… mean what I think you mean?”

He caressed her cheek. Then her jawline. He traced her lips with his thumb and could feel her shuddering under his touch. He felt powerful, with the upper hand. Something told him he wanted this woman. His hand slipped to her neck, then to her hip, bringing her close to him “Stay. Worry about going home in the morning.” He thought to himself in that moment, that he only needed to close the small gap between them and their lips would lock. She took a deep, ragged breath, and pondered on what to do until she looked at his eyes, begging her to stay.

Untitled Collab with @missameliep 

The call ended and Liz looked at Hayley genuinely curious “What was that?”

“What do you think it was?”

Liz chuckled “He just asked you on a date! The very same Ernest Sinclaire!”

Hayley snorted “You surprised he didn’t fume or glared at me through the screen? Or the fact that being grumpy and stoic isn’t his only personality trait and he can be actually nice to be with?”

“The second one.”

Hayley chuckled as she turned around “Ernest at first is a kind of gremlin, but once you get to know him and are patient with him and respect his times, he’s the nicest guy you’ll ever meet. Ever since a preteen, he has saved me from creeps when I wasn’t able to do so and has always been there. And yes, we like each other, but I’m taking my sweet time with him. Normally I’d bone him and break his heart, but something tells me that he is… different. Special. Worth the shot.”

The Viscountess: Unkown and untitled chapter 

She took a glance towards Ernest, who was talking to Isabelle, probably giving her instructions about the gala etiquette and what she should avoid to do in front of grown-ups. He adverted her gaze and gave her a smile and she smiled back. When he noticed her dress, his eyes went wide. It wasn’t her first choice either, but Briar insisted that with that lethal weapon, he wouldn’t be able to take his hands off her.

Everyone started to ask for dates for the first dance. Some young heiresses were fighting over who’d dance with the man of the hour: her father, who even at his age and still not over the love of his life, her mother, Mary, brought attention of women who were seeking a good marriage to get rid of poverty. Nicole shook her head as she felt a familiar tall figure staring at her. She spun around to smile at Ernest “Hey.”

“Nicole. I was wondering if you could, uh… dance with me?”

Tagging: @choicesficwriterscreations​ 

[marmolady]

Livita: Part Three

Book/Series: Endless Summer

Main Pairings: Estela x MC/Taylor (f)

Summary: Post-ending. Freed from Vaanu, Taylor has been building a life with her soulmate… but their family remains not quite complete. Read PART ONE and PART TWO.

Word Count: 3551

Reviews and reblogs are hugely appreciated!

Tagging: @sceptilemasterr​ @saivilo​ @greengroove​ 

La Huerta, June 2023

  The pair returned to La Huerta with a couple of months spare to get ready for their new addition, and come the fourth Catalyst reunion –the very first day-- it was time.

Her waters having broken in the middle of the anniversary party, Estela had quickly been swooped upon by an attentive Michelle, who’d determined it was high time they took the proceedings back to their own home where there was a little more comfort and privacy. Taylor lovingly tended to her wife, cleaning her off and helping her into the back of the car that would ferry them along the track between The Celestial and the hut in Catalyst Village.

“Taylor,” Estela took her wife’s shaking hand in her own. “You don’t have to be so nervous. It’s not like you’re the one who’s gonna be doing all the work.”

“Hey, this is likely to be the most important day of both of our lives. I’m allowed to have a few jitters, okay?”

Taylor caught Estela’s eye and grinned like an idiot. This is actually, finally happening. The smile faltered just a little as she felt Estela’s body stiffen beside her; another contraction. That there was only so much she could do was difficult; all their battles were fought together, as equal partners, and to essentially be a bystander was a role Taylor wasn’t sure she suited.

As she helped Estela up to their bed, Taylor was left with the distinct impression that she was being humoured; the fussing really wasn’t necessary, but the care behind the gesture appreciated. Maybe that was what was most needed after all… just that support that didn’t even need to be spoken. She had to hope so, because there was really little else she could offer.

“You’ve got this, ‘Stel,” she murmured as she kissed her wife’s temple.

“Querida, we’ve got this. Just stay with me, okay?”

“Always.”

Estela approached childbirth in much the same manner that she did most of life’s challenges; just getting on with it. She was no stranger to pain, and refused to be daunted, breathing through contractions with minimal grumbling. Taylor sat upon the bed beside her, offering massages and holding her hand through the worst of the contractions, all the while enjoying a rare opportunity to catch up properly with Michelle, who’d offered herself as midwife.

“First delivery you’re assisting in, hey? That’ll be one for the photo albums.”

Michelle chuckled. “Yes, I’m sure Estela would appreciate those photos going up on the wall. I’d be surprised if this won’t be my only midwife appointment. This isn’t exactly my field.”

Catching her breath after another contraction, Estela nodded. “Thank you for preserving my dignity. And… this. After everything…,” She had to physically shake off the memories… memories of one of the most torturous periods of her life. That kind of fear would only cripple her now. “There’s no one I’d trust more to help us through this.”

“Brain surgery will still be waiting for me once I’ve put that baby in your arms.”

Every now and then, a text message would come through from someone or another, asking for a progress report, and in return receiving an update on the annual anniversary party. Naturally, bets were being made all over the place… the sex of the baby… the time of arrival… whether or not it came out brandishing a weapon…. The attention from the rest of the Catalysts was welcome, breaking up the monotony otherwise punctuated by Estela quietly huffing through contractions.

“I don’t know how you’re so calm….” Michelle was saying.

“You know the thing with ducks?” Estela asked. “Perfectly calm and composed on the surface, but below the water, the legs are frantically paddling? I’m pretty sure that’s me right now.”

“Well, your impression of ‘not freaking out’ is convincing. But it’s good. Obviously, these things tend to be drawn out; you need to pace yourself, emotionally.”

“Right now it’s just… pain. Pain doesn’t worry me. I’ve done pain; I know I can survive it. But what comes later; that’s what’s scary. Nene has to go through a lot to get here… and there’s only so much I can control.”

Again, Taylor offered a hand, and gave Estela’s a soft squeeze. “We’ve already put the med centre on alert,” she said gently, hoping to reassure herself as well as her wife. Those jitters were starting to escalate. “The healers have delivered plenty of babies by emergency C-section; if bub needs a hand, help will be here in minutes.”

Estela stroked Taylor’s fingers. She was a great comfort. Far greater than she could say. They’d been through a lot together, faced down impossible odds; this, Estela told herself, was something totally different. Babies were born every minute of every day, and she was strong, and fit, and healthy. All she had to was grit her teeth and power through.

The sky outside darkened, and it seemed quite clear that the night would be a long one. With progress slow, Taylor killed some time by rustling up some snacks from the kitchen. When she came back upstairs, she couldn’t help but let her eye linger upon the small room, the one that would soon belong to their child. All of a sudden, that their lives were about to change became very real. She’d never had a childhood herself, so to have the blessing of experiencing it through her own son or daughter was a great unknown. Taylor was certain she was ready. The one her friends would turn to with all their problems, she would be an open and supportive parent. And in Estela… well, she couldn’t ask for a more fiercely loving partner. It would be scary, but as Taylor saw it, all the best adventures were.

The hours dragged by so slowly. Taylor found herself fidgety, and took to slowly pacing beside the bed. She still felt like a spare part, and nervous energy built up within her as she picked up the same from Estela. They were now hours in, and there was a sense that they were turning towards the last, dangerous stretch… and still Taylor could do little to ease the process.

Estela’s staunch stoicism began to falter. A trembling bottom lip betrayed her fear as she hit a wall, scared for the first time since her labour began. The contractions kept coming, with barely a pause. Wave after wave, stronger, as if her body was trying to tear itself apart, and no chance to come up for air. It felt as though she had no control over her own body… and by extension, the baby. She was a passenger along for the ride, powerless. After so many hours, countless nightmare scenarios had time to run through her head, now haunting her, and doubt in herself set in with a vengeance. As soon as she let that primal fear take hold, a wave of grief hit her, so strong that she might drown.

Worried, Michelle rubbed her arm. “What’s going on? Estela?”

There was no response. Estela looked away; her expression distant as she retreated into herself. She wanted to cry, to scream, but it would not bring what she needed.

“It’s getting more intense because we’re getting near the time when you need to push. This is normal. Talk to us, okay?”

Still nothing.

Taylor leaned over the bed, reaching for Estela, unnerved by the change, so swift and profound. Something was really not right. She took her wife’s shaking hand and squeezed, and the pressure returned was fierce, panicked. Still, she struggled to get eye contact; Estela appeared lost, far away. “…Hey…” When she finally met Estela’s eyes, she saw a plea for help. The penny dropped.

“Hey, could you give us a moment?” she asked in Michelle’s ear, her voice hushed.

Once they were left alone, Taylor climbed onto the bed and brought Estela’s head to her chest, stroking her sweat-drenched hair. “You want your mom…”

The painful lump in Estela’s throat gave way. She leaned into Taylor, who cradled her as she cried and writhed in agony.

“I’m so sorry, my love, my beautiful Estela… I’m sorry she can’t be here, holding your hand like she should be…”

The floodgates had opened, and Estela sobbed into her wife’s shirt, her hands clutching desperately at her back, hanging on as if afraid of losing her too. It made Taylor’s heart ache.

“That’s it… let it out…” Taylor kissed Estela’s soaked brow and held her close, gently rocking her as her body convulsed through a contraction that just seemed to go on forever. “I’ve got you. You just hold on tight, okay? I’ve got you, and I’m never… I’m never letting go.”

“Taylor… it hurts.”

It hurts so bad. Mami….

“I know… I know…,” Taylor whispered. More kisses, the only inadequate comfort she could offer. It just wasn’t fair.  “She’s part of you always, sweetheart… nothing can ever take that from you. And our little baby… she’s part of our baby too. All that love your mom gave you, you get to pass it on, share it with bub.” Taylor sighed, feeling the weight of her helplessness as her wife gripped her ever tighter, gasping in pain. She couldn’t help with the baby, and she sure as hell give Estela what she really needed. Her voice caught in her throat. “I know it can never be enough.”

Slowly… agonisingly slowly, the intensity receded, the contractions slowed, and Estela could finally catch her breath, her vice-grip on Taylor’s back slackening. It felt as though the worst was over. She felt a tender kiss to the side of her face, and returned it, even as she trembled in Taylor’s arms.

“Sorry,” she panted, offering a weak smile.  “I didn’t expect it to creep up on me like that. I just… started to get nervous about the baby coming, and… God, it hurt so bad… and the more scared I got… it was almost like I was a kid again, needing her so much.”

“That’s natural, Stel.”

“And I guess I can feel that it’s close now. It doesn’t… it doesn’t feel right for the baby to come… and her not be here. I’m sorry, I just…”

“Hey…don’t apologise.” Taylor took Estela’s face in her hands, stroking away tears with the gentlest touch. “This is where your strength comes from; your big heart… even the part that’s always going to be broken. It’s why you’re gonna be the most wonderful, incredible mama to our little baby. Your mom would be so proud of you, Estela. God, I know I am.”

Estela nuzzled against Taylor’s fingers, taking one to her mouth in a soft kiss. She looked at her through her tears, feeding off the devotion that shone back in those brilliant blue eyes. Her mother would be so happy that she had Taylor, in her corner through it all. In a way… it was she who’d brought them together.

She exhaled shakily, and groaned through another godawful contraction. “I can’t wait for you to hold our baby…”

Taylor pressed her forehead to Estela’s, her heart full to bursting. “You are so, so strong, love. You’ve got this.” And I’ve got you.

Estela closed her eyes, soothed by the intimate touch. “Taylor… thank you.” A kiss to her cheek told her that Taylor understood. That they were in this together really went without saying. She took a deep breath. Time to do this. “We should bring Michelle back in; I think I’m ready to start pushing.”

There was a small flurry of activity as Michelle hurriedly resumed doctor duties, and confirmed that things were indeed moving along. Getting comfortable was all but impossible, but Estela eventually settled kneeling up against Taylor, letting gravity help her out.

Another shuddering cry rang out as Estela dug deep to push against the all-consuming pain. Progress felt excruciatingly slow. Her powerful body strained with every ounce of strength, willing the baby onwards, while she held on desperately to Taylor’s hand.

“You’re doing great… you might just break my fingers, but you’re doing great.”

Again and again she switched positions, her frustration growing. She pushed and panted, all the while feeling as though her body was trying to tear itself in two.

At long last --to the expectant mothers it might have been an eternity-- the baby’s head appeared, and Taylor reluctantly eased away from her wife, to be helped into position for delivery by Michelle. Her heart pounded wildly at the first glimpse. There it was. Their baby. Their baby…

Michelle leaned in close, nervous exhilaration clear on her face. “Are you ready? I’ll be right here with you to check baby over.�� Receiving a confident nod, she returned her attention to the person who was doing all the hard work. “Estela, you’re so, so close.”

“…I fucking hope so…”

“On the next contraction, I want you to pant through it… gentle pushes so the head doesn’t come too fast.Once the head’s out, I think… I think one more big push should do it.”

Estela whimpered and looked to Taylor for reassurance. This had gone on long enough… she needed to know that the baby was all right. Gentle, murmured words of encouragement and a soft rub against her leg helped to steady her, and she steeled herself for the next wave. In Taylor’s eyes she saw everything she felt herself; fear, exhilaration, and desperate, desperate longing. This was it now; she was bringing her baby home.

A strong cry rang out as the baby entered the world, straight into Taylor’s waiting hands, instantly bringing her to tears. Tiny arms reached out in bewilderment and the baby hollered in shock at the sudden transition. Murmuring gentle words of comfort, Taylor brought the child up to her face, softly kissing as the indignant cries quietened.

“Is the baby okay-- Taylor, is baby okay?”

Taylor bundled the wet, disoriented infant close to her, while Michelle checked it over, and responded with a voice thick with elated tears. “Stel, she’s perfect. Ten fingers, ten toes, and she’s already got a lot to say for herself.”

Tears streamed down Estela’s face as her hands flew to her mouth in sweet disbelief. Their baby was here… she was here and she was safe. Her voice trembled when she spoke, the briefest glimpses of the child enough to send her into emotional overwhelm. “She? She’s a girl?”

“She’s a beautiful girl.”

Receiving an encouraging nod from Michelle, Taylor brought the baby, now wrapped in a towel, and gently eased her into Estela’s waiting arms.

Estela’s breath caught in her throat. When she met her daughter’s eyes, she thought she might never look away. “Oh my god…” She wept, clutching the child to her bare chest, and her heart skipped a beat as a tiny mouth latched onto her breast. “Mi dulce niña, mi bebé, mi bebé…”

She reluctantly tore her gaze away from her precious baby to look up at Taylor, whose eyes were swimming, face shining with love. “Taylor…”

Sniffling helplessly, Taylor leaned in and kissed the top of her wife’s head again and again. “Oh god, I love you, Estela… I love her… I… I…”

Michelle looked on, a hand over her heart and her eyes misty. “Congratulations, both of you. She’s just… absolutely, completely gorgeous. And… and thank you.” The slight shake of her voice gave away her emotions. “That you wanted me to share this with you… it honestly means the world.”

Taylor stood up and wrapped her friend in the tightest, most loving of hugs. “Thank you. So, so much. I don’t know what we did to deserve you, but we love you so much, Michelle.”

Wiping tears from her eyes, Estela have a little nod, looking at Michelle with fierce gratitude and affection. She couldn’t find the words, but a quiet understanding was all that was needed.

“I love you both. And your little angel…” Michelle felt endless satisfaction as she watched the infant nurse at her friend’s chest. To have played even a small part in making that happen, her heart might just burst with pride.

Taylor climbed into the bed and wriggled down under the covers, drawn into the heat of Estela’s body. She nuzzled her face towards her chest and took in a deep breath as she pressed a long kiss to the baby’s soft head, taking in the sweetest of scents.

“So… Olivia?” she asked.

Estela’s eyes welled as she nodded her head. She knew Taylor understood, and in that moment, she couldn’t love her more. “Our Livita. Maybe, Olivia… Andromeda? You should be a part of her name.”

“Oh. Oh, wow.” For a few moments, Taylor was lost for words, and she simply looked at her beloved with starry eyes. She took Estela’s hand and kissed it before going back to kiss their daughter again--how she’d ever get enough of smooching that child’s dear little face, she’d never know. “That’s… that’s perfect. She’s perfect.” She stroked Olivia’s dark, downy hair, her skin so impossibly soft. “Oh, my Livi… our angel… we love you all the way to the stars.”

“All the way to the stars, and back again,” Estela corrected with a wink.

Michelle quietly bustled around them, cleaning up and making sure all the boxes were ticked on her baby delivery checklist. It was some hour later before the afterbirth was delivered and she was confident enough to say that all was well. Completely ecstatic though Michelle was, she was more than ready to collapse into her pillow by the time she headed to the door.

“I’ll give you some privacy,” she said softly, knowing that her work there was done. Both mothers were handling the baby confidently, and with a tenderness that was heart-warming to behold. Tucked up against Estela’s chest, a hand protectively cradling her tiny body, no child could wish for a safer, more loving embrace in which to rest. “I’ll be back in a minute if you need anything at all, but I’ve got a feeling you can take it from here.”

The first rays of sunlight filtered through the floaty drapes, a welcome dawn after the longest of nights, bringing the colour of day to the new life that settled, fed and contented, against the warmth of her mothers’ beating hearts.

Before she turned to go, Michelle left a kiss each on her friends’ foreheads and stroked under the baby’s tiny chin.

“Olivia Andromeda Montoya, welcome to the world.”

[magioftheseas]

Burdensome

Summary: Sometimes, Hanako gets annoyed that he's the only one of the group with secrets.

Rating: G

Warning: None, really. I guess implications to Hanako’s vague past?

Notes: I honestly wrote this just to see if I could come up with a simple enough idea that would then be made into a fairly short fic. I’m trying to get more productive in my writing, see, so sometimes I have to resort to methods like that. In fact, I was so fixated on the idea of completing this before the day was over (and I had like, two hours before it did) that I ended up missing the deadline for applying to a zine I wanted to apply to. Now THAT’S burdensome.

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The world is filled with secrets. He’s known from the beginning that there are a lot of things that are kept from others. Crushes, concerns, dreams, ambitions, motivations—the deepest aspects of a person were often the most hidden.

He knows this well, and yet—

Those two are a bit different.

“Hanako-kun, what’s up?” Yashiro would ask, and the young exorcist would also glance his way. They both had such wide, honest and open gazes. “You’ve been staring for a while.”

“I was thinking,” Hanako says, waving his hand with his usual smile. “You two are way too easygoing.”

“Coming from a spirit!” Minamoto bit back as Yashiro similarly protested.

“I have plenty of worries not in the least thanks to you!”

“That’s not what I mean,” Hanako laughed. “You two are also pretty naïve, aren’t you?”

“And what is that supposed to mean, Hanako?!”

“Yeah, Hanako-kun! What do you mean?!”

What do you think?

Irritation nips at him. His smile twists the slightest bit.

Normal people have secrets. Normal people have baggage that they wouldn’t share with the world. I’ve observed the students here enough to know that hasn’t changed over the decades. You two, on the other hand...

Open books. Both of them. Even with their torn pages.

“Never mind,” Hanako chirps. “I was just thinking.”

“I bet you were,” Minamoto huffed as Yashiro pouted.

“I swear, Hanako-kun. It wouldn’t kill you to be more honest with us sometimes. You’re way too secretive.” She does pause, however. “O-Of course, I only expect you to tell us things when you’re ready.”

“Yeah, what senpai said.”

Even with the verbal agreement, there is a flicker of aggravation in the young exorcist’s eyes. An open book. Hanako already knows what he’s thinking about. It’s obvious. Too obvious. Minamoto Kou was a simple man of simple concerns, after all. He wanted to be respected, but he wanted to protect those around him. His family, friends, Yashiro—and the other Mitsuba.

Even now, Tsukasa lingers between them like blood in the water. They’re both just too afraid to bite because matters could escalate and that wouldn’t be ideal when Yashiro’s always a factor. That—and Minamoto was kind. He and Yashiro were both kind people. There was that, too.

Kindness was often granted as a privilege. It shouldn’t have been such an easy, accessible resource.

It’s cumbersome—how much the two humans that Hanako is closest to just don’t act like normal humans.

Yashiro was tugging at Minamoto’s sleeve, and she sways him into resuming their cleaning. With a sweet and disarming smile, the matter is settled and discarded. It might not ever get brought up again, because these two aren’t the types to hold grudges.

They’re kind. They’re just very, very kind.

How infuriating.

--

“Is there a reason why you’re giving those two attitude all of a sudden?” Tsuchigomori asks him. “You’ve got them complaining to me about you, Honorable Seventh. And y’know—I can’t exactly reprimand you as your teacher anymore.”

“And yet, you’re reprimanding me,” Hanako pointed out, tucked between the curtains. “I assume you do want me to stop.”

“It’s just troublesome behavior,” Tsuchigomori says with an impassive shrug. “Troublesome for them, for you, for me. Rather than just bottling it up, you should just vent.”

“It is annoying,” Yako chirped up in the midst of grooming her tail. “Those brats are going to keep on whining and it’ll soon be troublesome for everyone.”

“Don’t think we asked your opinion, dumb fox,” Tsuchigomori muttered, to which she hissed back.

“It’s hard to nap peacefully when everyone is as gloomy as you!”

“It’s because,” Hanako spoke up. Immediately, Tsuchigomori turns to face him, ever attentive. “I’m frustrated.”

“With what, exactly?” Yako asked, muffled against her tail. “Don’t tell me you’ve gotten bored of them.”

“Oh no, they’re still plenty fun to mess with.” Hanako waved his hand. “However—don’t you think it’s weird? Yashiro and that boy are both so simple. They don’t really have any deep dark secrets.”

“They don’t,” Tsuchigomori confirmed. “As transparent and blatant as they come. Do you feel awkward, then? Like you don’t fit in? You’re already an apparition, Honorable Seventh.”

Even as a human, I wouldn’t have fit in with them. Even acting as a human, I had to distance myself from them.

“Keeping secrets may be natural, but it is a burden you must undertake if decided.” Tsuchigomori inhales, sighing out smoke. “Even so, don’t act out so much.”

“They’re both still bratty garbage humans,” Yako murmured, ever unimpressed. “Tasteless and tactless.”

“I’m sure you’d make tasty udon,” Hanako cheerfully remarked.

Yako snorted, but curled up into an unassuming ball all the same.

“Honorable Seventh.”

That smile on Hanako’s face remained, even when stared down by Tsuchigomori’s stern, knitted glare.

“Do those humans make you feel inferior?”

Yako’s ear twitched, but she mercifully kept any further commentary to herself.

“Maybe a little,” Hanako admitted, laughing. “I get it. I’ll apologize. I’m sorry for the trouble, sensei.”

Tsuchigomori didn’t look remotely reassured or convinced.

Haven’t you prodded a little too much already? I could still squash you like a bug.

Aha. Those thoughts sound like something Tsukasa would say.

Hanako leaves without another word.

--

“You don’t have to say anything.”

Yashiro speaks the second he slinks in. She’s not looking his way but her hands are fisting into her skirt.

“It’s not like I don’t understand—sometimes people have a lot more going on. I get frustrated, too, when I see Aoi able to laugh off guys confessing to her. Aoi’s really carefree. Sometimes I envy her so much that I get upset.”

Hanako blinks, tugging at his collar awkwardly.

“Yashiro...”

“I know!” she exclaims. “So don’t—don’t treat me as if I’m shallow just because I might not have as much going on as you do! I’ll have you know I have plenty going on!” She turns on him, fierce despite her tears. “I-I actually really want to have a bunch of rodents! And I want to have a huge garden! A-And not only to I want to marry a handsome boy—I also think I want kids! A-A boy and a girl! It’s too early but—who knows! Having beautiful children might be really, really fun! I don’t know—but I think about it! One time I dreamed about my own daughter making fun of me for my legs! And I woke up crying!”

She was still crying right now, in fact.

“I’m going to graduate and I still want to be friends with Aoi even though she’s inevitably going to an elite college that I could never dream of attending! I-I also want to make more friends. I-I heard that—once you get to college, people start caring a lot less about their appearances...! But that because everyone’s all matured, they’re still super attractive...!” Yashiro blubbers. “I-I’m gonna graduate, I’m gonna go to college, I’m gonna grow up, I’m gonna get my garden, my rodents, my husband, my children, and, and, and... I’m still going to visit you if I can... Because I don’t want you getting lonely. Even if Tsuchigomori-sensei teaches here forever, I—I’ll worry about you, Hanako-kun.” She sniffles. “I’ll worry...a lot. What if you completely go off the deep end without me and Kou-kun? I’m—so worried!”

“Are you saying I’ll become a villain out of loneliness?” Hanako asked, mildly offended, mildly amused. “I was lonely before I met you for a long time.”

“That might make it worse,” Yashiro mutters. “Losing your friends is awful, even if you were friendless before.”

Friendless. I wasn’t really friendless. That said. That said...

“The fact that you’re so compassionate really does irk me,” he said. “Yashiro—you’re way too kind. Please be careful.”

“Or I’ll be taken advantage of, you mean?” Yashiro’s frown deepened, her cheeks darker. “I’m not helpless, Hanako-kun. I’m not always going to need you to save me. I’ll do my best to manage on my own. As well as I can.”

“I believe you. After all, I have underestimated you in the past.”

“Hanako-kun...” Yashiro huffed and she stomped forward. Raising her hand, she furiously ruffled Hanako’s hair. “You’re so immature! Don’t act like you’re not!”

“H-Hey, Yashiro.”

She knocks off his hat so that she can ruffle him harder.

“Immature! Childish! Bratty! Meanie! Hanako-kun!”

“Y-Yashiro, cut it out!”

Yashiro finally laughs at him. Hanako glares back, but then, after a while, his expression twists.

“Sometimes, it’s so heavy I can’t move. I should be glad you can move about so freely.”

Yashiro shakes her head, smile strained but sympathetic.

“We’re friends, Hanako-kun. If you want me to shoulder the burden with you, all you have to do is ask.”

I won’t. I refuse.

But Yashiro does hug him, and it’s far too easy to fall into her embrace.

She really isn’t one to be underestimated.

“There, there,” Yashiro coos, petting his hair. “There, there. Just let Nene-nee help you.”

Hanako chortled.

“I’m half a century older than you.”

Yashiro chuckles.

“You’re still a child, Hanako-kun.”

Still a child. She really is naïve. As if all I am is a child that desperately needs reassurance and validation. I needed more than that. We both did. But, still. Still, still, still.

Hanako’s lips pressed closely together as he buried his face into her shoulder.

I guess this is still nice.

[vampire207343]

Diana Grace

What if.... Davis Motomiya is born a girl by the name Diana and she has a big secret that she kept from her friends she’s a ..... Demigod the Daughter of Apollo.

          Diana left Odaiba after the defeat of MaloMyotismon for good since she has been drifting away from the rest of the Digidestin even from her mortal bestfriend Ken Ichijouji, since he has been spending more time to his new girlfriend Yolie Inue. Which I didn’t mine, but it feels like were not even friends anymore.

While I was in the park with Veemon an old clock sales man aproach me and given me a chance to be a different type of Digidestin and I accepted his proposal to become different time of Digidestin, I become a General every since then.

                 When I arrived at Digi-Quortz which are similar to the Digital world except the whole place look like a digital version of the human world.

 The Digimon that join my army are:

Apollomon

Dianamon

Leppamon

Raze Greymon

Sakuyamon

Mermaimon

Mihiramon

Cutemon

Guilmon

Rosemom

Floramon

Stingmon

Falcomon

Agunimon

Lobomon

Kazemon

Beetlemon

Loweemon

Swanmon

Lucemon

Seadramon

Justicemon

Junomon

I am the General of Miracles and after all the Generals defeated Quortzmon we return to the real world, but we all stayed in contact with one another even if we aren’t in the same town or country beside some of the Digimon Generals are Demigod like myself for example:

Mikey Kudo the demigod son of Hermes 

Jeremy Tsurgi the demigod son of Hermes

Angie Hinomoto the demigod daughter of Ares

So all the general knows about Demigod, but they still accept them. So after I return home their seem to be no time past which I didn’t mind beside All the Child Digidestin wouldn’t miss me one bit since their all to busy with their own life so they wouldn’t even know that I’m leaving Odaiba and moving to New York.

Diana being a daughter of Apollo, she’s great music and healing like all her brothers and sister.

              5 months later...

 The Digidestin finally notice the absent of Diana’s prescent so they went ro visit her at her house.

                                                      Ding.....Dong....

And Jun open the apartment door.

“ Oh... it’s you guys, what do you want? ” Jun ask.

“ Can we see Diana ” Kari said.

“ She’s not here ” Jun replied.

“ When is she going to get home? ” Ken ask.

“ You guys don’t know do you? ” Jun aak after look at them all in the eyes.

“ We don’t know what ? ” Cody ask.

“ My sister moved ” Jun replied.

“ Moved?....Where did she moved away? ” T.K. ask shock.

“ She moved to New Yorkbto be closer with her father and other siblings” Jun said.

“ Ah... this might be little personal but don’t you and Diana shared the same father? ” Yolie ask.

“ No.... Diana is my younger half sister.... well if that’s all goodbye ” Jun said Before closing the aparment door to their face.

 Before all the Digidestin left the Motomiya home and meet up with the older digidestin and told them what Jun said to them.

“ Did you guys even know she move at all ” Matt ask.

“ No ” Yolie said.

“ But, where still pick up the signal of her D-3 in Japan ” T.K. said.

“ It’s quite possible that when she left Japan. Diana left her D-3 behind ” Izzy said.

“ I suppost ” Ken said.

“ But I still can’t believed that Diana moved ” Yolie said.

“ Yeah ” Kari said.

“ I guess we are to bussy with our own lives that we didn’t notice that Diana left Japan ” Cody said.

“ I guess your right.... we been slowly drifting away from one another since the the defeat of MaloMyotismon ” T.K. said.

3 years later...

   The war with Gaia and her giant are finally over the 7 Demigods are:

Percy Jackson the son of Poseidon

Annabeth Chase the daughter of Athena

Frank Zhang the son of Mars

Hazel Lavender the daughter of Pluto

Piper Mclean the daughterbof Aphrodite

Leo Valdez the son of Hepheatus

Diana Motomiya the Daughter of Apollo

Jason Grace the son of Jupiter

Diana and Jason are now offically a couple, and their friends Piper Mclean has her heart broken since she also has a crush on Jason. But the relationship that Jason and Piper had at the beging was the creation if the Mist it wasn’t real but she did fall in love with Jason for real but Jason fellnin love with the beautiful daughter of Apollo, Diana Motomiya.

   One of Diana’s friends Jeremy Tsurgi the sin of Hermes was their for Piper to comfort her broken heart and help. Jason Grace, Piper Mclean and Leo Valdez become a General aswell.

Jason Grace’s army consist of :

Jupitermon

Leppamon

Seadramon

Hawkmon

Ravenmon

Angemon

Beetlemon

Huckmon

Sorcermon

Veedramon

War Greymon

Kazemon

Justicemon

Garurumon

Cutemon

Apollomon

Gallantmon

Monochromon

Kudamon

Lobomon

Angewomon

Leo Valdez’s army consist of:

Vulcanusmon

Datamon

Clockmon

Mihiramon

Marine Angemon

Leomon

Armadillomon

Tentomon

Kyubimon

Impmon

Agunimon

Metal Greymon

Magnamon

Labramon

Metal Seadramon

Biyomon

Terriermon

Wormon

Gaomon

Hawkmon

Piper Mclean's army consist of:

Venusmon

Lilymon

Yokomon

Terriermon

Metal Seadramon

Biyomon

Impmon

Leomon

Gatomon

Gabumon

Strikemon

Floramon

That summer they all went to Japan to meet the rest of the Generals by thrn Piper began dating Jeremy Tsurgi, after getting over her feelings for Jason. Piper Mclean, Leo Valdez and Jason Grace get along eith the rest of the General.

       5 years later...

All the Generals are now 21 years old and finally graduate College even those who are demigods. Jason Grace recently propose to Diana they been together for 6 years now.

 And they had a huge wedding at the Plazza in New York that their mortal friends could also attend and the Gods  made sure that no monster can ruwin their wedding and Queen Hera/Juno also gaved them her blessing which they thank her for.

           A month after tgey gotten married they find out from Apollo that Diana is already pregnant with twin Daughters their names are Serenity and Minako Grace  born in June 30, 1978.

               5 years later....

My mortal sister Jun Motomiya invited my family to her wedding to Jim Kido the older brother of Joe Kido the child of Reliability and I haven’t  seen the child Digidestins for almost 13 years since I left Odaiba. I know that Jun would most likely invited them all their yo her wedding since she’s marrying Joe Kido’s older brother.

Mikey and Angie are also invited since their son Duo Kudo is the Ring Bearer like my youngest daughter Minako is the flower girl for the wedding.

We flyto Japan using my family’s private Jet and Jeremy and his wife Piper tag along since it’s also the Digidestin Genersls Reunion so Leo and his wife Airu Suzaki

Would be taging along with their 4 years old son Xavier Valdez.

Jeremy & Piper Tsurgi, Leo & Airu Valdez and their family went a head to where they were meeting with the rest of the Generals, While Mikey and his wife Angie Kudo, Jason and Diana Grace and their family attented Jun’s wedding

2 Hours Later....

   The wedding Ceremony are finish and now all the guest are taking a seat to eat.

“ Congrasulation Jun ” Diana said giving her sister a hug.

“ Diana you made it in time ” Jun said.

“ I got my scudel clear for your wedding and you made my youngest daughter your flower girl and beside our friends are having a 10 years reunion later ” Diana said.

“ Congrasulation Jun ” Jason said.

“Oh.., thanks Jason. And it’s nice to see you again”  Jun said.

“ You too ” Jason said.

“ Congrasulation, Aunt Jun "Serenity and Minako Grace said.

“ Oh thank you girls " Jun said.

“ Well we will leave you to talk to your other guest ” Diana said, before joing Mikey, Angie and their two sons Heero and Dup Kudo.

“ Alright ” Jun said. 

Unknown to Diana that Joe spotted her.

“Guy...Guys... you would gelieve who I just saw ” Joe kido said.

“ Who is it that your out of breath” Natt ask.

“ I saw Diana again with her family, and it turn out the flower girl Minako Grace is Diana’s youngest daughter ” Joe said.

“ What? ” Tai ask shock.

“ Dosen’t that mean she’s married ” Yolie said.

“ From the look of things, yeah ” Joe said.

“ She has longer hair now and her once pure brown hair turn to golden brown hair ” Joe said.

“ Really she use to have a boyish haircut" T.K. said

“Yeah” she right their point at Diana.

“ I suppost 13 years can change a person’s view on things ” Sora said.

“ I guess your right ” Yolie said.

“ So what dose Diana do now a days? ” Kari ask.

“ To tell you guys the truth I still don’t know that part ” Joe said.

After the wedding the Kudo and the Grace family left and went to Shinohome to meet up with the rest of the Generals.

“ Hey, Jun what is Diana doing now a days? ” Tai ask.

“ Well Diana is a famous Actress and Singer, but she also own a Resturant Businesss that she runs. She also went to Medical School like her brothers and Sister, but she never went to be a Doctor but she dose have a degree for it. And her husband Jason Grace is an Actor and he also own Grace Airline. ” Jun said.

“ What?! Diana’s an actress and Singer ” Yolie ask shock.

“ That’s right. Well this is wehere we leave you ” Jun said before She and Jim left for their Honeymoon.

  Nene Amano end up marrying Christopher Aonuma. And she work as a Zologu expert while Christopher becoje a Marshal Art Instructor and they have one daughter together Lita Aonuma who’s the same age as Minako and Serenity.

Mikey Kudo become a Gym Teacher in New York city and Angie open up her own resturant that could rivals that of Diana’s. Mikey and Angie has two children and they are Heero and Duo Kudo.

8 years later...

Serenity & Minako  Grace, Lita Aonuma, Heero and Duo Kudo are now 14 years old and their family are currently living in Japan and all their memories of their pass life has return to them a month ago, so they have discretly collected all the 7 Rainbow crystal before making it one and Serenity hiding it from her body.

Minako Grace was the reborn princesss of Venus and she was also the captain of Inner Senshi of Princess Serenity. She was Sailor Venus the Senshi of Love and Beauty. She already at Princess Sailor Venus while she is in active that dosen’t mean they don’t trainn well those who remember their true memory of their past life not the one Queen Serenity want them to believe.

Lita Anomua is the reborn eelf of the princess of Jupiter, she also happen to be the secound in command of the inner sendhi of Princess Serenity. She is the senshi of Bravery and Protection, Sailor Jupitor, and Like Minako she has trained hard to reach the level of princess Sailor Jupitor.

 Duo Kudo was the reborn self of the Prince of Saturn and the half-brother of Princess Serenity and Sailor Saturn, he is the secound in command of the Planetry Knights.

Then their’s Heeero Kudo was the reborn self of the Prince of Jupitor and the half-brother of princess Lita of Jupitor and the capatain of the Planetry Knights.

Then Finally their is Serenity Grace vthe reborn self of Princess Serenity of the Moon. She is tge crown princess of the white moon kingdom and the true misstress of the Sliver Crystal which she currently hiding inside her own body. While her mother  Queen Serenity didn’t want her to be train as a senshi dhe sneak out to train as one without her mother knowladge. She also reach the same level as Venus and Jupitor, she now Princess Sailor Moon.

Serenity POV

 I have cut  any bond that I may have with PrincevEndymione XII since they may have been enganged to marry one another in their first life, but they did not love one another their Engangement was only to stop War from breaking out between the Moon and Earth Kingdoms, hut instead their Engagement cause the destruction of the moon Kingdom. Because of Endymione’s ex-girlfriend who he had to leave because if their Engangement. Beryl who is a Noble daughter from Earth, broke the Ancient Seal that contain one of the most Evilnbeing on Earth Metalicana which  my mother Queen Serenity sealed away long ago. And now  Metalicana possesed Beryl and she had rallied an Army and attack the Moon kingdom the lead to it’s destruction.

   At that time I was not awared that my younger half sister Princess Selena of the moon.

Have been visiting Earth many times that she end up meeting Endymione and fall in love with him even though she know the moment she heard his name that he is the Fiancee of her older half sister, but she didn’t care, but her rendezvous stop after the annocment of Serenity and Endymione’s wedding. For our mother would have her head if she didn’t.

I’m not awared who Selena’s father is in our last life and I’m 100% sure that she was not the daughter of of King Hades of Saturn, no one really know who her father is.

   Recently Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury are awaken most likely by Luna and Pluto awaken Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus earlier with the other inner scouts no where to be found. After the battle with Queen Beryl, Minako Grace finally found Artemis again but by then we were to Japan to go back to San Fransico.

          And we arrived home, we meet tye reborn self of Sailor Saturn who happen be my younger half sister in our last life, she is a legacy like us being the daughter of Koichi Kimura the son of Ares and Legacy of Pluto. He happenb to be a different Digidestin, he is a Warrior Digidestin.

We become friends with her. Serenity & Minako Grace both dream of become a famous Actress and Singer like their mother Diana Grace. Since they have godly blood in this life they inhearte their frandfather’s power as a legacy of Jupitor and Apollo.

[pjsk-headcanons]

nenekasa au: at the pet store straight up inspecting it and by it haha well let’s just say… my future snake (PART 4‼️)

i do not remember if i sent in a part four. if i did uh woh oh!!! i have faulty memory starts crying anyways

so as mentioned before. the girls acquire a snake and a tarantula. we have stephen the tarantula wait till yall hear about saxophone the rat snake. do not ask about the name of saxophone. i don’t play the saxophone. i play a brass instrument. aka the best instrument. (🎺)

a2 begged tsukasa for a snake. tsukasa hates snakes too. he told her no the first 2487 times. on the 2488th time!!!

he said no.

so as any good daughter who totally 3000% loves her father would do, she got saxophone.

t: ayana what the hell did you bring home??

a2: her name is saxophone im attached to her 🙁🙁

t: ayana i didn’t say.. whatever just keep it.. i guess.

nene screamed when she saw the enclosure. she talked to the twins very sternly but eventually just let them keep stephen and saxophone.

so yeah now they have a snake and tarantula in their ever loving home. they are refined family members and are in three of eight family portraits.

(a2 name reveal 😱🤯)

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[elizabeatrice]

Sumire: In Summary (Chapter 66)

Let’s Talk About JSHK Manga #2

Warning: !!!Manga spoilers up to chapter 66!!! Duh.

These are my initial thoughts. I’m warning you, they may not be entirely coherent. I wrote this when Eng scanlations weren’t out yet, so I used @etoile_atelier’s Eng summary that they posted on their Insta Story. I’ll update with the scanlations later.

Sorry not sorry for the awful title I’m just punny like that okay.

Summary: Chapter commentary + theories on: Sumire’s relations to Aoi, Sumire and Tsukasa’s seals, and is Sumire and Shinigami a cautionary tale for Hanako and Nene?

First, chapter recap.

Having no expectations at all amplified my emotional reactions to this chapter like 1000%

THE COLORED PAGE. REALLY? REALLY. ANOTHER SUPERNATURAL/HUMAN PAIR?

IT ONLY TOOK FOUR PANELS. FOUR (4)! (Oh, the number of death ... makes sense)

I can’t. I can’t deal. I’m not supposed to sympathize with Goat Man yet.

I mean we’re only four panels into his story smh

Okay so we’re back with Hanako and Nene! And they’re ... somewhere.

And they came across villagers who call them monsters (mononokes)

Honestly why are people so rude to my boy he’s a kiddo trying his best mkay and now ya’ll’re capturing him, the nerve! Y’all captured my daughter in law as well, who’s a literal angel! I will call your mothers about this unacceptable behavior, random villagers.

*ding* [A wild new character appears!]

Ghost girl finally reappears! And yet again, I must ask,

“What is your deal, bruh?”

Sumire took them in, treating them like miserable strays in desperate need of help

And Sumire said something along the lines of taking in the mononokes like she always does

Lmao when these two dumbasses tryna escape

At the very least, Hanako and Nene are trapped somewhere comfortable. And without creepy bugs.

Sumire is so much like Aoi I-???

‘Kay they must be related somehow, right? (More on that later below)

So ... is it official? Are we serving tanuki nabe in hananene events now?

Hanako is even more careful than usual and I gotta say, I’m following his footsteps.

Before I got my stylus out and started translating stuffs, I was so worried when I saw the panels focused on Hakujoudai.

I care about Hakujoudai more than I thought, guys. What a revelation.

Domestic hananene, finally some good freaking food tea.

Darn Hanako spilled the tea (literally, and figuratively)

So they’re not in the Far Shore ... I feel like I was lied to. Why would you lie to your own minions (and us), Shinigami?!

Unless them landing wherever this is wasn’t intentional.

Man, I was excited to see the Far Shore too.

Hanako said they’re still in Shinigami’s boundary, and the place is water-less because they’re in some sort of made up world inside his boundary (that may or may not be based on his memories)

I think it actually is based on his memories, because the first page’s introductory sentence included something along the lines of, “Seven Mysteries’ No. 6′s memories”

So yeah it’s like a mini theater, presumably made by Shinigami so that his boss and his boss’ kannagi couldn’t interfere with his plans. Maybe.

I know the tea might be drugged by Sumire/Shinigami or whatever but-

Your wife helped make that tea, Yugi Amane, show some appreciation!

She looked sad about the tea, too, oh you precious child

Hanako’s sulky, distrustful face tho lmao

Boy was all serious like, “I’ll protect this girl with my afterlife”

Then ZAP *obligatory “Hanako you pervert” comment*

Hanako: Go in there save Yashiro go in there save Yashiro and maybe take a lil peek-

Also Hanako: She’ll hate me.

Hanako: Fuck.

Sumire: Aren’t you two lovers?

Nene: NO.

Sumire:

Nene: ////// D-do we actually look like lovers?

Sumire:

Sumire: Gurl-

*TV beep*

AidaIro: Imma just drop the bomb of the month here~

Sumire: I’m (probably) a yorishiro!

*roll credits*

*cue me screaming*

Sumire? Aoi?

Option A

Aoi and Sumire come from the same bloodline, Sumire’s her ancestor.

Option B

Aoi is Sumire’s reincarnation. So, that means the Sumire we’re seeing isn’t the real Sumire, regardless whether she was made especially for this ‘made up lil’ world inside the boundary’ or the real yorishiro.

Though, would Shinigami actually put his yorishiro somewhere Hanako and Nene could find and destroy her so easily? Suspicious.

So yeah this Sumire, if she really is the real yorishiro, must be a memory apparition like Mitsuba 2.0

White on Black, Red on Black

Now the moment this girl revealed her seal I knew the fandom would point a finger and unanimously scream, Tsukasa!

But ... then again, there’s the matter of different colors between Tsukasa’s seal and the yorishiro seals we’ve seen so far

What if object-yorishiro and person-yorishiro seals have different colors?

Like, white on black seals for object-yorishiro, and red on black seals for person-yorishiro

We actually need to see Sumire’s seal in color to confirm this tho

Sumire, Shinigami, and the Repeating Motive of Tragic Human-Supernatural Relationships in JSHK

Boi. You knew from the first four panels alone that something went wrong with Sumire and Shinigami.

“Promise you’ll stay with me forever.”

Bruh. I can not.

I mean I’m already imagining stuffs that are probably not how their real story’s gonna go down but

It’s definitely tragic, you can smell it. I’ll be entirely shocked if it ain’t tragic

Shinigami’s her betrothed, right?

Why are they only getting married now tho? I assume these two first met ages ago.

Could it be that human Sumire died before they could?

If so ... what if they’re trying to fulfill their wish that never got to happen when Sumire was alive?

What if these two are a cautionary tale for Hanako and Nene?

This might be too far fetched but think about it.

Sumire said, “Falling for things that don’t exist in our world may be deemed a taboo, but you can’t help it if you’re attracted to them,” and it’s the same for Sumire.

According to her, Shinigami is a straitlaced but cute demon. He used to kill for fun (and out of boredom, ‘cause the dude is immortal) but he’s quick to get shy, too.

So. You’ve got a kannagi who’s all too kind to ‘monsters’ (taking in the mononokes, remember?) and try her best to help them.

And a monster with dangerous powers who also have a shy side and would do anything to do what they deem right.

Sounds familiar?

Let’s admit it. The only problem Nene has with liking Hanako is the fact that he’s not her type.

Him being dead has never been the main problem.

In fact, when she does acknowledge his death, it was out of sympathy. She wished he could’ve lived happier. But since he didn’t she sets out to make his afterlife happy, you know, as a good friend.

So I imagine if she does, in fact, accept that she really does like him like that, she’ll be a lot like Sumire, don’t you think?

Nene’s thing is that she’s got compassion for everyone, whether they’re supernaturals or not (unless they mock her legs I guess hahahaha).

She won over Yako (who still hasn’t admitted it), Tsuchigomori, and Shijima with her earnest heart.

On the other hand, Hanako was willing to defy his own principles, his hatred toward the fakeness of Shijima’s world, and perhaps supernatural law or whatever (’cause I doubt it’s ‘legal’ to keep the students trapped in a painting) just because Nene could live happily there.

As we (slowly) uncover Shinigami’s story, Nene also seems to be constantly confronted by others regarding her own feelings. Akane, Aoi, now Sumire.

Also:

“Promise you’ll stay with me forever?”

“Stay by my side until then, okay?”

BAM!

I just broke your hearts. Maybe. Maybe not.

Now Imma go cry.

[xillveart]

Pushover

A conversation that may or may not have happened between Bakugou and his daughter Natsuki during Koge’s birthday party, written out in the story titled Birthday. 

Main Pairing: Bakugou x Koge (OC)

Featured Characters: Kirishima x Nene (OC), Matsuki (OC) x Otoha (OC), Natsuki (OC) x Mimiyuki (OC) Seijirou (OC) x Dokuji (OC) ,Daiki (OC), Atsuki (OC), Serina (OC)

Rating: Teen Warnings: Cursing, alcohol Genre: Fluff / Domestic / Family Words: 1660

Natsuki let out a heavy sigh as she flopped down to sit next to her father, letting her arm rest around the back of the couch behind him. “How’s it hangin’, Daddy-o? Worlds best Dad? Coolest Dad in the Univer-” 

“What do you want, Natsuki.” Bakugou grumbled as he kept his eyes on his phone, currently scrolling through his pictures as he was looking for something particular that Koge had asked for a few moments ago. With a huff, Natsuki pulled her legs up onto the couch, glowering at the phone as it was keeping most of his attention that she was trying to receive. 

“Just because I come up to you doesn’t mean I want something Daddy, I was just coming to hang out with you. You looked lonely over here all by yourself.” She moved some of her hair out of her face, leaning her cheek against his shoulder. “Why do you think so negatively all the time?” 

Bakugou locked his phone, taking a second to put it into his pocket as searching for the picture would require more of his time than what he had at the moment. “Natsu, I know you. If you come up to me, and try to butter me up first thing, then you want something.” 

“That’s not always true. But-” 

“But?” 

“-Today it is true. I do want something.” A wide grin crossed her lips as Bakugou rolled his eyes, turning her body more to face him. “But it’s not for me!” 

“Not for you, huh?” Bakugou leaned forward to grab his drink off the table, thinking that he would require alcohol for whatever request she was going to have. Natsuki was his baby girl, and he would do anything in the world for her. Within reason, of course. Still, he had a tendency to crack and give her whatever she wanted, even if he did make her work for it by either paying him back or helping him do things that required assistance. “Go on, then.” 

After a quick glance around to make sure no one was within earshot, Natsuki kept her voice low, nearly whispering to him. “I want to throw a retirement party for Uncle Seiji.” Her statement made Bakugou cock his eyebrow at first, a bit surprised that she would want to take on such a daunting task. “Will you help me?” 

“Like… Just with us, or a formal party?” 

“No, I want it to be huge! He had always talked about it, where we have a formal like… ceremony where he hands off the company to me. But Uncle Doey said he may not be able to do all the planning and stuff with his injury, and Serina is so focused on college it’s hard for her to do much. I really want to plan it for him!” Natsuki took her father’s arm, giving him a small shake in excitement. “You know so many people that he does, you could help me invite them and stuff!” 

“Are you sure he’d want this?” Bakugou glanced over at Seijirou, who was currently chatting happily with Serina and Koge. “You don’t think it would be overwhelming for him?” 

“No way, I think he’d love it. I wouldn’t want it to be a surprise, I’d keep him in the loop, make sure he’s comfortable with everything. I just want to do it for him, make sure he gets the official send off that he deserves. You know he’s been kind of… abandoned by the hero community, after everything he’s ever done, it’s like he doesn’t matter anymore. Or that’s what he thinks. I want to show him that’s not true.” 

Bakugou gave a soft grunt in agreement, looking down into his cup as he considered it. Sure, Seijirou had always irritated him, from the very first moment he met the man back in High School. But, his wife and children adored him, and it was true that Seijirou had done so much for them all. In particular, Seijirou had pushed Natsuki to become the strong woman that she was, taking the fact that she was quirkless and turning it into something truly amazing. So, with a nod, he turned his gaze to look at his daughter, who was already beaming. “Alright, Natsu. I’ll help you.” 

“Really?!” Natsuki bounced in her spot, though she stopped abruptly as Bakugou struggled to keep his drink from spilling. “Oh shit, sorry! You really mean it, though?” 

“How could I say no? As long as you’re sure he’s on board with it. I don’t want to plan and pay for a bunch of shit just for him to be a bummer about it all. Get his approval first-- Not right now! Damn, Natsu, breathe.” Bakugou had to snatch her by the wrist and pull her back to sit, making her squeak in surprise from the way he jerked her back. 

Although she was annoyed at first, a thoughtful expression came over her face, huffing as she sunk down into the couch. “Hm, you’re right. This is Mama’s night, I should wait.” 

“Good choice. He’s still not retiring for another two years, right?” 

“Well, he’ll technically retire whenever, but I think he wanted to wait until I was twenty five to hand the company over to me completely. I just think it would be good to start planning early! You know him, he’ll want it to be extra extravagant and invite a whole bunch of people.” 

“Sounds fucking awful.” 

“Hey, I’ll be the one who’s judged the whole night and criticized on if I’m worthy or not. You’ll have to let me kick your ass to prove it to everyone.” 

Bakugou scoffed, taking a hefty swig from his drink. “Natsuki, no matter how much I love you, I am never letting you kick my ass. I’d let you try, but I’m not going to just let you win.” 

Giggling, Natsuki nudged him playfully, smirking up at him. “We both know I’d still kick your ass. You’re an old man now, you got them creaky bones and flabby muscles.” 

“Excuse me?” Bakugou lifted his arm to flex, only making Natsuki’s giggles turn into a laugh. “Do you see this? Does this look like flab to you, little girl?” 

“Oh no, no flab at all.” Natsuki gave his bicep a few hard smacks, which had really no effect on him. “Hard as a rock! Just like your head- ow!” She flinched as Bakugou gave her nose a flick, punishing her for that last comment. “Rude!” 

Chuckling, Bakugou sat his drink down on the table, not wanting to drink it too quickly since he was already feeling quite a buzz from it. “You think everything is rude, Natsu. Oh, how are you and Mimi?” 

“We’re great, Daddy.” Natsuki’s smile turned soft at the mention of her lover, looking over at the elegant blackhaired beauty as she conversed with Matsuki and Otoha. “She’s so supportive and amazing. Having moved in with her is one of the best decisions ever. I miss being home with you and Mama, but Mimi is just the fucking best. I miss her a lot when she goes on tour, but that’s normal, I guess.” 

“Good. I’m glad her high profile life isn’t too much for you. I know sometimes it could be for your mom.” 

“Aw, you don’t have to worry about me.” Natsuki waved her hand in the air dismissively. “People know better than to mess with her when I’m around. I guess I’m kinda used to it anyway, being the daughter of such a bad ass pro hero. I’ve had my fair share of bullshit growing up.” 

“It’ll get worse when you take Seijirou’s company. Are you sure you’re ready for that?” 

Natsuki sighed, tilting her head to the side a bit in thought as she looked down to the floor. “I had been thinking about that a lot… It’s what I’ve always wanted, and I know I’m skilled enough, but I’m worried I don’t have the personality for it. He’s so carefree and people just piss me off all the time.” 

“People piss him off all the time, too, you’ve seen him turn into some type of merciless sociopath. I remember once in high school, we were in one of his classes, and he shit on Denki Kaminari so hard it was the funniest damn thing. He can be brutal, and so can you. In my opinion, you have the perfect personality for what his core message is. I don’t think he would offer it to you if you weren’t perfect to be his successor. You should be proud of yourself, Natsuki.” 

“Think so?” Natsuki looked up at her father, genuine concern on her normally stern features. With a nod, Bakugou ruffled her already wild hair, giving her a comforting smile. 

“Of course I think so. You’re my bad ass baby girl, you can do anything you put your mind to. You know damn well you’ve completely blown me away with how much you’ve accomplished. Not only did you get that college degree, you’re about to inherit a multi million dollar company from one of the most prolific heroes in the country. I couldn’t be more proud of you.” 

Wide smile on her face, Natsuki hugged Bakugou tightly, receiving a tight squeeze from him in return. “Thank you, Daddy. You’re the best. I think I’ll come talk to you when you’re tipsy more often, you’re so nice!” 

“Tch, I’m nice all the fucking time, what are you talking about?” 

“Well, while you’re in such a nice mood and I’m staying in town for the next couple of days… Want to go shopping with me tomorrow to hang out?” 

“What, so I can buy you shit?” 

“... No. Unless you offer. I just want some Daddy-Daughter bonding, is that too much to ask?” 

“Uh huh, sure. It’s been a few years since I’ve taken you shopping, so that’s fine.” 

“Heck yeah. Worlds best Dad.” 

“Don’t push it.”